Introduction

Team Group is a well-known Taiwanese hardware manufacturer with a long history of catering to the needs of enthusiasts and gamers from all over the globe. Their lineup includes DRAM memory and solid-state drives, and they also offer various memory cards and USB thumb drives.



Today, we are reviewing the Team Group T-Force Treasure Touch portable SSD, which includes an adjustable RGB element that can be controller via a "touch" interface—as the product name suggests. A colored RGB lighting strip runs along one edge of the drive and lights up in various colors and combos you can control. Under the hood, we found a fully fledged SATA SSD using a Silicon Motion SM2258H controller paired with Samsung 64-layer TLC flash and a DRAM cache chip from Hynix. In terms of connectivity, the T-Force Treasure Touch uses a USB-C interface supporting the USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, aka USB 3.1 Gen 2, which supports speeds of up to 10 Gbps.

We review the Team Group T-Force Treasure Touch in the 1 TB variant, which retails for $150; no other capacity is available, and the warranty is set to three years.

Package

The Drive

The outer shell of the Treasure Touch is made out of brushed metal, which looks very elegant, but does pick up finger prints fairly easily.


A single USB-C port lets you connect to the drive. An activity indicator is not available.


On the other side, you'll find some branding by Team Group.


This is where the magic happens. The bright transparent stripe will light up in RGB colors.


You can choose from among various patterns, the first of which is "rainbow," which looks mighty good. To make changes, double-tap the Team Group logo with your fingers. A triple tap will turn on/off the RGB lighting. A single touch doesn't do anything, which makes sense as you'd trigger that function quite often by accident.


In addition to that, there's one-color strobing in white, blue, green, and yellow.